Essays medical and experimental / [Thomas Percival].

  • Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804.
Date:
1772
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Credit: Essays medical and experimental / [Thomas Percival]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fore the Royal Society, and will probably be publifhed in the next Volume of Philofophical Tranfadti- ons. (a) Tni title of the fourth Effay fully explains the purport of it. An attempt to afcertain the ufe and operation of a remedy fo well known as Blifters, may at firft view appear to be unneceflary. But a more attentive examination will convince us of our miftake. The (a) T he Columbo Root is cordial, corroborant, anti- feptic, and powerfully antiemetic. It is a ufeful remedy' in the cholera morbus; in diarrhoeas; in the dyfentery; in bilious fevers; in a languid Hate of the fiomach, at¬ tended with want of appetite, naufea, and indjgeflioni and in habitual vomitings, when they proceed from a weaknefs or irritability of the fiomach, from an irregular gout, from acidities, or from acrimonious bile. Experi¬ ence confirms the truth of thefe obfexvations, and the • following fa&s ferve in feme oieafure to explain them. Az